Ian Rush Quotes
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
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I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.
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I think ISIS can do terrible things.
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.
